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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 16, 2023 at 3:59 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 12, 2022 at 7:49 p.m.
Thread: Another Option
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Erkadurk347</b></div><div>I don’t understand why people think getting debrincat is a good idea. Yes he provides goal scoring but the devils need a slafkovsky type player more, while also still having a goal scorer in the system in Holtz. The bigger issue is explain to me with this roster how the devils will be able to afford Debrincat, Mercer, Holtz, siegenthaler, Blackwood, McLeod, Severson Walsh, Luke Hughes, etc. when their contracts are up. Please explain</div></div>

DeBrincat is a sure thing, Slafkovsky and Holtz both unproven. The last guy like Slafkovsky who was high end draft was Kakko and Holtz skating needs improvement. With Debrincat your getting near 40 goals a season and his two way game is very good and continues to improve. You can run the gauntlet with what you have in the pipeline or try win with the impressive young core and add a top 5 perennial goal scorer.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 12, 2022 at 12:52 p.m.
Thread: Another Option
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>holtzer</b></div><div>That DeBrincat deal is overpaying hard. Eichel didn't even go for that much.</div></div>

Well in fairness, while this proposal I believe is overpaying, Cat is worth more then Eichel. Why?
1) Eichel carrying a $10M cap hit trade in season has a very limited market, teams have already set their cap for the season and can't just squeeze in $10M thus there was limited demand
2) Eichel going into a major surgery with a very gray or unknown long term prognosis (which is still there). Not many teams are willing to eat up $10M in cap space for that
3) Eichel forced Buffalo to trade him, and was a public display
4) Eichel was a UFA in 4 years, that's a lot of risk and a lot of cap space for a guy that the acquiring team only gets for 4 years

Cat has never been injured, continues to get better and better, is a RFA, a year younger, traded in the offseason when teams can easily make cap space, and carrying a very affordable cap hit.